Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by shmerl on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:48AM
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> Most of the important projects on GitHub are licensed under an open source license, which addresses intellectual property ownership.
This can be tricky in a legally messed up environment. In US, courts sided with Oracle about copyrightability of APIs. And guess who supported Oracle in that dispute? Microsoft. So how should open source projects feel about it, especially when they let's say implement MS own APIs?
This can be tricky in a legally messed up environment. In US, courts sided with Oracle about copyrightability of APIs. And guess who supported Oracle in that dispute? Microsoft. So how should open source projects feel about it, especially when they let's say implement MS own APIs?